Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands Tab par Bill Anderson

Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands
Written and recorded by Bill Anderson

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When I was a little boy my daddy used to say to me son
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We got a lotta big land and a lotta hard work to be done
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Go get your marbles put 'em in the house
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Tear down your castles in the sand
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Come with your pappy to the cotton patch
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And get a little dirt on your hands

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Get a little dirt on your hands boy
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Get a little dirt on your hands
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If you're gonna grow up to be a big big man
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You gotta get a little dirt on your hands
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You gotta get a little dirt on your hands

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Well I got to be twenty and I thought I was a pretty big wheel
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Left the country for the city met a slicker with a shady deal
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He said hold up the tavern take all the money
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Run as fast as you can
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If you're gonna get along in this big bad world
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You gotta get a little dirt on your hands

Repeat #2

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Well it's four in the morning and the warden is a calling my name
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Says he's teaching me a lesson gonna send me out to work in the rain
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Dig that ditch boy chop that corn
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I gotta make you understand
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Only way to straighten out a guy like you
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Is to get a little dirt on your hands

Repeat #2